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September 18, 2020 Trout and Salmon Foundation (“TSF”) announced the 2020 grant recipients approved at TSF’s annual board meeting. TSF awarded almost $70,000 in grants to 18 community-based watershed organizations across North America.  “Trout and Salmon Foundation’s grants will support our partners in reconnecting more than 100 miles of trout and salmon waters, developing critical spawning and rearing habitat…

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Trout Unlimited’s blog recently highlighted a number of TU projects around the United States supported by grants from Trout and Salmon Foundation. The blog post also discusses nearly 40 years of partnership between Trout Unlimited and Trout and Salmon Foundation….a short snippet from the blog post: “Since its founding in 1972, the foundation has contributed to 175 TU projects…

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Shushan, NY The Trout and Salmon Foundation was pleased to check in on an exciting habitat restoration project on New York’s Battenkill River watershed.  Bill Bullock, Vice Chair of the Trout and Salmon Foundation visited with Jacob Fetterman,Trout Unlimited’s Project Coordinator of the Battenkill Home Rivers Initiative, to get an update on this important habitat project on one of…

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Trout and Salmon Foundation’s first Annual Impact Report provides supporters and friends of TSF with a detailed understanding of the results achieved by annual grant recipients over the prior year and detail on current year grant recipients. TSF Annual Impact Report 2019 Harry Hanson, Chairman of Trout and Salmon Foundation, said “Results are part of our Core Values. 100%…

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September 21, 2019 Salida, Colorado – Trout and Salmon Foundation (“TSF”) announced its 2019 grant recipients approved at TSF’s annual board meeting.  “Over the past 50 years TSF has granted more than $1.5 million to enable our partners to complete cold water habitat improvement projects in trout and salmon waters from coast-to-coast,” said Harry Hanson, Trout and Salmon Foundation…

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Since 2015, Trout and Salmon Foundation has supported the operations of the Peter Gray Hatchery, operated by the Downeast Salmon Federation on Maine’s East Machias River, that aims to restore wild Atlantic salmon populations.  The project is based on successful salmon restoration methods designed by Peter Gray on the River Tyne and incorporates innovative rearing conditions in a purpose-built…

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In 2016, Trout and Salmon Foundation supported a plan by Montana Trout Unlimited to acquire and install a fish screen and restore 600 feet of spawning side channel on Rattlesnake Creek (Montana), a tributary of Clark Fork River, and to benefit bull trout, west slope cutthroat trout and migratory wild trout. This project was part of a broader project…

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In 2017, Trout and Salmon Foundation funded an American Rivers project to remove two diversions on Pine Creek, the main rearing habitat for Eagle Lake Rainbow Trout. Eagle Lake Rainbow Trout are an iconic wild trout that inhabit a single watershed in Northern California and are a California State Species of Concern. American Rivers highlighted the Eagle Lake Rainbow Trout…

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Trout and Salmon Foundation Announces 2017 Grants to Support Habitat Improvement Projects in Cold Water Trout and Salmon Fisheries Sun Valley, Idaho – Trout and Salmon Foundation (“TSF”) announced its 2017 grant recipients approved at TSF’s annual board meeting.  “We are honored to support our conservation partners with the funding required to execute meaningful trout and salmon habitat improvement…

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